Ehrlichiosis
Alternate Terms:- Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis
- HME
- Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis
- Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis
Ehrlichiosis is an infectious disease that can be passed to humans by ticks. It causes fever, chills, headache (often severe), general ill feeling (malaise), nausea and vomiting, and a purple or red rash.
Symptoms usually start from 1 to 21 days (average of 7 days) after the tick bite. Ehrlichiosis is usually treated with prescription medication.
The disease most frequently occurs in the southern and south-central United States, especially in Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
| Author: | Jeannette Curtis |
| Medical Review: | Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine |
| Last Updated: May 25, 2007 | |
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